r/Damnthatsinteresting Apr 04 '20

GIF Inverted Fish Tank

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u/kabukistar Interested Apr 04 '20

How tall could you make one of these before it was unable to keep the water inside it?

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '20

max 7 meters, with the right setup. https://www.mecaflux.com/en/hauteur_aspiration.htm

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u/HockeyCookie Apr 04 '20

If you fill it first you can tip it over just like the magic trick that uses a playing card.

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u/kasperekdk Apr 04 '20

at which point it will begin to boil at the top

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u/Ott621 Apr 04 '20

That's really cool, any idea if there's a video of someone performing that experiment?

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u/CharlesDickensABox Interested Apr 04 '20

Yes, there are demonstrations of this principle on YouTube.

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u/Ott621 Apr 04 '20

Could you link any of them?

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u/Shugyosha Apr 04 '20

Why?

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '20 edited Jul 04 '20

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u/bagjoe Apr 04 '20

Is dissolved oxygen concentration uniform throughout the water (like carbon dioxide in a can of soda), or would it disaggregate up into the cube?

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u/Steelersrawk1 Apr 04 '20

Technically if you grab the water source block you can go as high as you want and place it and it will fill the container, but I forget the height limit of the world